I guess I'll start this off by recapping 2013. Despite a few blessings, 2013 was not a good year. I am getting off the good track and I want to make this thread to hold myself accountable and have a nice place to recap everything.

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- I bubbled the Yearly TLB by 200 points.

This is a direct result of my lack of effort in key spots. Early in the year, the SNE pace burned me out and I ended up taking a break to play a bunch of Diablo 3. Then, around WSOP time, I got 2nd in a SCOOP event for $60k+ and so I basically took a three month long extended vacation in Vegas for the WSOP, blew about 40% of my poker bankroll, and came back to Korea depressed and clueless. Thankfully, I started winning online right off the bat.

- Poor mental game. A lot of talk about running bad, cussing, etc.

I think this is a symptom of how unhealthy my life is. Usually, I'm waking up at night, playing all through the night, and going to bed in the afternoon. I'm not overweight but I've lost the athleticism I had when I was younger. I also developed gout, frequent sprains, and other problems due to poor diet.

- I made quite a few mistakes in live tournaments, notably two big hands in the WSOP Main Event and the ACOP Macau Warmup

If I ever want to accomplish my true goals in poker, I'm going to have to conquer this live thing.

- I let a lot of personal relationships with friends suffer and generally became more and more antisocial
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I kind of hate the way I approached last year. The 2013 goals I listed out was Top 5 Yearly TLB (cool), Ship the Triple Crowns (huge lol), and possibly Supernova Elite.

I think the hubris of listing Triple Crowns as a goal is alarming to me. There are so many players out there struggling to get better, and I was sitting there concerned with badges and rankings on a website!

I put out a series on DeucesCracked about beating SNG's, but I didn't even study hard enough to beat the SNG's hard period. Basically 2013 was just a case study of me thinking I was 2hot2fail. When the year ended and I was 200 points behind 10th place, I failed all right. Ice cold failure.

I do have a lot of blessings to count for the past year. I met the love of my life, a real solid girlfriend who I'm trying to lock down. I had another 200k+ year and still feel ahead of the curve. But I hate who I'm becoming (antisocial, cocky, unhealthy, irritable, etc). I hate 2013 me. Kanye said it's hard to be humble when you're stuntin on the jumbotron. I want to stunt in 2014 with a humble happy heart.

2014 is a new year and I want to get back to the way I should be.

Professional Goals:

- Top 10 Yearly TLB
- Possible Supernova Elite
- If that's not possible, travel the live circuit a bit
- Stop and smell the roses. Enjoy the fruits of the hard work

Personal Goals:

- Become more social, the way I was in high school
- Take better care of the people I love
- Escape my fortress of solitude
- Live a more balanced, healthy lifestyle

Also I'm not sure how many of you use Tiltbook but I might get more active on there: http://tiltbook.com/YugiohPro/

200 pts short wow brutal...you'll turn it around man, gl!

So today was my first serious day on the grind. Going back to last year, I won the Big 11 on Saturday, putting me only 250 or so points behind 10th place in the Yearly. I only had Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday left to grind though and I put everything I had into it (16 hour days). I fell short by just a bit and was really burned out.

I put in a full session today with a few final tables. I final tabled the 55R Big Antes, Hot 22, and got 10th in the 2400 player $10.50 Super KO. My volume will be exclusively on Stars except for on Sundays.

It was about a 5k VPP day, which is huge for me. I didn't run so hot but luck will follow after hard work.

I played most of 2013 on my own but in 2014, I'm rejoining Team BigBluffZinc. BBZ is my guru and mentor and has helped my game tremendously. We're doing a trial run for January, seeing how many VPP I can put out, and I'm also considering moving to Vancouver.

Being in Seoul, I feel too isolated in poker so I think it's very life +ev for me to keep in contact with his crew. Much love and respect to the people I talk strategy or life advice with as well (Frenzuh, Mr PaintBall, OMGClaydol, and TheLipofund most notably). Frenzuh, Claydol, and Lipo all had massive years and I'm very happy for them (no hating this time).

I want to post funny BOOMs and weekly updates here on my SNE pace and big Yearly scores. I got 3rd in the Hot 22 today. This otherwise solid but weaker player was on a huge rush and decided to make this highly questionable spazz gamble : O.

Never underestimate the effects of adrenaline at big final tables I guess.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-h...465_9FA399B299

good luck ,see u in macau mtts

You got this man! Don't be to hard on yourself for last year. It makes of the rest of us look bad! When your feeling down, just remember your likely in the top 50 online MTT players in the world if not higher. All the best in 2014

Gl this yr broski

Gl man! Always fun to read your threads.

200k year would change my life. Love how you set the bar so high. Gl this year will be following.

Subbed for sure. GL in 2014.

Poker/life Balance is so hard for me as somebody with an IRL business but lives poker. Will be cool to see how you tackle the challenges.

Subbed, shouldn't be so hard on yourself. Think most grinders struggle with your IRL goals to a certain extent, comes with the job. I know my real life goals this year are very similar, wish you all the best.

Subbed and gl bro

Subbed. Good luck

sub gl ! btw enjoyed your vids for dc

All the best this year - it really looks like you've got a better mentality going into this this year.

Your bankroll builder series really helped me! I hope you achieve all your goals this year. GL

Get it done this year, glgl

GL man, follow through and get it done.

I like this opening post. Gl man.

Big fan of your DC Videos, mainly the reason I subscribe there. Good luck this year, dream big my friend!

Gl. I love you.

Good luck man, watched some of your vids on DC so subbed for the ride.

GL in 2014. and hopefully you finally get that SNE !

Subbed GL !!

GL sicko

GL man have a good one